CFP: Female Political Leaders (no deadline, journal issue)

For a special issue on "Women in Power" the multidisciplinary onlinejournal "gender forum" (http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de), affiliatedwith the University of Cologne, Germany, seeks articles discussingfemale political leadership. "Women in Power" seeks to instigate thisdiscussion with two articles by German feminist activist Alice Schwarzeron Angela Merkel and would like to invite a debate focussing on "Womenin Power" and questions of gender as well as reviews of books about andby women in leadership positions. The articles by Alice Schwarzer areavailable online athttp://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de/women_power/women_power.html. The"Women in Power" special issue is meant to be updated over the followingmonths with articles submitted in answer to this call for papers.

Completed articles should be submitted via email togender-forum_at_uni-koeln.de, preferably in .doc, .rtf. Articles shouldconform to the "gender forum" style sheet (available for download athttp://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de/stylesheet.pdf) and should notexceed 8,000 words in length. Please include an abstract of your article(10 to 15 lines). Use endnotes and fully documented references at theend of the article. For further information on the journal, please visitour homepage at http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de or contact us viaemail at gender-forum_at_uni-koeln.de.